This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks
This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks

E244: Brex acquired by Capital One; ClickHouse raise at $15B; Nvidia invests in Baseten; New OpenAI revenue streams

24 January 2026 18:10 AG Dillon & Co

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00:00 - Intro
00:07 - ClickHouse $400M Series D $15B Valuation Langfuse M&A
01:29 - Runpod $120M Run Rate 500K Developers 31 Regions
02:59 - Humans& $480M Seed $4.48B Valuation 3 Months Old
04:03 - Baseten $300M Raise $5B Valuation Nvidia $150M
04:49 - Noveon Magnetics $215M Raise 2,000+ Tons Per Year Target
06:17 - Zipline $600M+ New Funding $7.6B Valuation 2M+ Deliveries
07:34 - Hatch Yelp Acquisition $300M Deal 12x ARR
08:26 - Brex Capital One Acquisition $5.15B Deal $13B Deposits
09:30 - DayOne Data Centers IPO Target Up to $20B
10:14 - World Labs Funding Talks at $5B Potential $500M Balance Sheet Add
11:08 - TikTok US New Entity 50% New Investors 200M US Users
12:42 - Inferact $150M Seed $800M Valuation vLLM Commercialization
13:16 - RadixArk $400M Valuation SGLang Commercial Push
14:07 - Blue Origin TeraWave 6 Tbps 5,408 Satellites Q4 2027 Deployment
15:15 - OpenAI Shopify Checkouts Jan 26 Launch 4% ChatGPT Fee
16:24 - OpenAI API Revenue +$1B ARR in One Month $20B+ Total ARR
16:51 - OpenAI Ads Testing Coming Weeks Go Plan Included
17:31 - OpenAI ServiceNow 3-Year Enterprise Integration

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